Oh, Interesting Things I Find

So, late this morning, I was waking up slowly and checking over all of my social networking sites for updates, when I found a blog I follow shared something quite interesting back on May 29th. I missed it on that particular day, and only found it because I was investigating something else... But I found it relevant.

I have a particular appreciation for music, as it has always been in my life, just as I have a love of art and color. I used to love staring into the old iTunes visualizers for the amazing color combinations that I could see move together during my favorite music... But I was always slightly put off by how the visualizer really couldn't predict the music, and continued sporadic movements even when the music was no longer sporadic.

This is far from a visualizer of that sort, but I still find it fascinating to watch.

Just like visual/kinetic typography, the sounds you hear are visible. I find this so amazing.

This gentleman has dozens of compositions that he has designed with his overlapping talents in music and programming. I look at this, and I think to myself that anything can be possible.

Now, to find some more Saint-Saens to listen to...

BAH!

Working on coding and writing tonight, because my fiance has a few projects he's busy with. I took more notes from K&R, but man do I still have a long way to go. No better way to put your knowledge to the test with miniature tests, like using what you've learned so far to write a program from memory.

Looking back over that little chunk of text (I wrote it out in my notebook), I made 4 terrible mistakes that would've kept the whole thing from compiling... The worst one was leaving out the variable assignment!! Aggh!!

It's okay though. Deep breaths, and lots of note-taking. I've taken to slowly working through the descriptions of the statements, going step by step until I'm certain that I understand what they're talking about. If I can keep that up, I think I'll be okay.

Anyway, for more notes, click the break!

K&R

So I cracked open K&R.